Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 794

“……I see.”
A whisper-like confession of the soul.

Only after hearing those words, which the priestess had struggled to utter, could Lenok finally respond.

“The Ascendant’s Advent, the cult leader’s……”

He lowered his gaze, momentarily forgetting even the collapsing scenery of the Soul Requiem Tower all around him.

The Ascendant’s Advent was the cult leader himself, the vessel itself.

He felt like he understood what that meant for Lenok, and why he could accept that fact so naturally.

The failed work the cult leader himself had mentioned. The Ninefold Advent of Martial Arts he had learned from Rancia.

The existence of the priestess, Seina Naidri, and the existence of the Interstice [a space between worlds or dimensions] that observed the curse.

Even the connection between Lenok and the cult leader, which he could never be sure of.

Numerous questions that he couldn’t answer or understand immediately were turning into clear certainties one by one.

Numerous confusions and doubts that he had vaguely imagined but could never grasp the essence of.

Beyond that, Lenok realized that he had faced a new aspect of the cult leader.

Just as Lenok stopped walking on the spot, momentarily forgetting his conversation with the priestess.

Thud, thud!!

“Intruder……”

“A sinner who has defied the Soul Requiem Hall.”

“He must be hanged on the outer wall of the tower……!!”

Along with the ominous voices, materialized spirit soldiers surged from all directions and began to surround Lenok.

Beings similar to the tower guides who had led Lenok to the Soul Requiem Hall, beings that had a physical form but were not alive.

They were part of the Soul Requiem Tower, components, yet they were also ghosts with physical forms, functioning as soldiers guarding the Night Parade of a Myriad Ghosts [a procession of spirits].

As the spirit soldiers rushed in, each wielding a weapon shrouded in a faint spiritual aura, Lenok turned his gaze towards the priestess’s spirit form.

“……I understand what the Ascendant’s Advent stored within the Interstice is for.”

[……]

“But why you are now looking for the cult leader’s old vessel……”

The light in Lenok’s eyes, visible through the mask, shone intensely for a moment.

“I’ll hear that after we get out of here.”

At that moment, a huge spirit soldier opened its mouth in the ceiling and tried to swallow Lenok whole.

[Kkeeeeek!!]

Screech!!

At the same time as strongly pulling on the mana threads, he twisted his body and ejected his will.

Lenok’s figure, explosively accelerated, thrust itself directly into the spirit soldier’s maw.

Boom!!

The spirit soldier’s head exploded from the impact, and Lenok’s body soared up the Soul Requiem Tower’s stairs.

Lenok, who had immediately broken through the corridor ceiling and moved to a new floor, released mana threads again. Just as he was about to bounce towards the window next to him.

“Well, that won’t do.”

A myriad ghost appeared from beyond the window, as if waiting, and kicked Lenok hard.

Wham!!

The impact sent the shadow robe crashing into the corridor wall, sliding back nearly a dozen meters.

“……!!”

Even though he had protected his body with a shield and taken painkillers in advance, the impact was enough to make him gasp for breath.

The myriad ghost, who had walked down from outside the window, laughed as Lenok struggled to breathe.

“A special-type sorcerer of Pandemonium. A monster who manipulates both manipulation and spatial systems, right?”

“……”

“I thought you would escape with a space jump, so I sent the hundred ghosts to the outer wall of the tower, but you didn’t fall for it. Did you expect that?”

“……After meeting the Soul Requiem Hall, you seem to be well-informed about the outside world, unlike a ghost.”

Lenok scoffed and slowly rose from his spot.

“If you know about me, I thought you might have paid attention to my abilities as well.”

“Heh heh, you’re more cautious than you look. Or are you just particularly timid when you fight?”

Lenok, ignoring the provocation, quickly assessed the extent of the damage from the blow he had just taken.

‘The amount of impact is unbelievable for the physical force exerted by a spirit soldier…… If I get hit even once more, it will become dangerous.’

The white-haired youth blocking Lenok’s path was a myriad ghost guarding the Interstice of the Soul Requiem Tower, without a trace of decay.

He was a powerful spirit soldier belonging to an extraordinary rank even within Yorta.

He knew that spirit soldiers who had reached a certain rank or higher could intervene in the mortal world even in their soul state.

However, the impact Lenok had just felt contained such a high level of power that it was impossible to explain with such vague expressions.

“In this Soul Requiem Tower, the spirit soldiers who participated in the Great Night Parade exist beyond the constraints of space.”

As the myriad ghost said that and waved one hand, the stairs of the Soul Requiem Tower surrounding Lenok and the myriad ghost began to twist and bend vertically.

[Kkigeggegek.]

[Kkuaaaak.]

Along with the screams of the spirit soldiers being crushed and mangled within, the entire staircase of the Soul Requiem Tower changed its space.

Thud!!

A narrow, empty cubic space. A sealed room that had trapped Lenok and the myriad ghost, leaving them nowhere to escape.

“No matter where you run, no matter what method you use to escape, there is no way to avoid my eyes and ears.”

Lenok’s expression hardened for a moment at the existence of the new space created by manipulating thousands of spirit soldiers at once.

‘An incredible level of spirit soldier manipulation……!’

The skill with which the myriad ghost had manipulated the spirit soldiers subordinate to the Soul Requiem Tower to change the entire space of the tower was a marvel that even Lenok had rarely seen.

The true value of the myriad ghost guarding the Interstice was not in his powerful physical abilities, but in his spirit soldier techniques comparable to Onion’s.

“From the way you kept trying to peek outside while running away, it seems you were trying to do so from about 20 meters away.”

“……”

“Perhaps that’s because that’s the casting range of your space jump?”

The myriad ghost said, making a gesture of tightening his neck towards Lenok.

“But if you leave the Soul Requiem Tower at that distance, I can immediately catch you and lock you back in the tower. So give up and entrust your body to us.”

The myriad ghost smiled brightly at Lenok, who stood alone, having lost his escape route.

“I want to obtain both the soul of the cult’s priestess and the body of the special-type spatial sorcerer without damaging either.”

The young man seemed excited, as if anticipating the reward he would receive from now on.

“Even with the power that is not bound by the constraints of the flesh, you still place value on the flesh of other living beings.”

Lenok said, staring intently at the myriad ghost’s face.

“Is that for other fallen ghosts who need a body, not for you?”

“……”

“Looking at that, I think I know why you were still keeping the remains of the Ascendant inside the Interstice.”

Lenok chuckled, seeing the myriad ghost’s face turn blank for a moment.

“It wasn’t just the cult leader who needed the Ascendant’s corpse, but-”

“Ascendant……?”

At that moment, the myriad ghost repeated Lenok’s words with a dazed expression.

“Was that…… the Ascendant’s corpse?”

“……”

Lenok closed his mouth for a moment at the myriad ghost’s words, which were a question about a fact he had explained himself.

Meanwhile, the myriad ghost began to shake his head, holding his forehead with one hand as if he had a headache.

“Ah, no…… this, this isn’t it…… I, clearly…… while guarding the Interstice……”

“……”

“Five hundred roads from Balkan…… no, the Grand Canal Project…… no, Jinwa’s request……”

“It seems there’s a mix-up in your memories.”

Lenok tilted his head slightly, looking at the myriad ghost.

Strange, inconsistent behavior and a rigid expression.

He knew that it was a manifestation of severe amnesia, close to forgetfulness, from his time with ‘Innocent’ Claude Azlan.

And Lenok was able to quickly grasp the signs of that symptom appearing in the myriad ghost.

“Are you so broken that you can’t last long outside the Interstice?”

“Shut up, shut up……!!”

“Outside the Interstice, you don’t even remember what exists inside the Interstice……”

Lenok murmured in an interesting voice.

“Even though you haven’t fallen, it seems you’re not in a perfect state either.”

“Shut up!!”

The myriad ghost, holding his head with one hand, grabbed at the air, and the area of the sealed room began to shrink rapidly.

Crack, crack, crack!!

The spirit soldiers that made up the ceiling, walls, and floor were compressed and annihilated in an instant, compressing the entire space.

The myriad ghost, who was part of the Soul Requiem Tower, was not affected at all, so was he trying to crush Lenok to death by compressing the space itself?

Even if Lenok endured, he would suffocate because even the space to breathe would disappear.

Unlike his words, his brutal reaction of trying to crush and burst his own body without hesitation.

Perhaps it was because Lenok’s words had strongly pierced the hidden weakness of Yorta.

At this rate, whether he was crushed to death or suffocated to death, there was no way to escape.

[Your Excellency. I will use the function of revelation at this moment.]

The priestess said in a rapid tone, having assessed the situation.

[If I forcibly guide the flow of spirit soldiers with the power of the function, a path will open. Prepare now-]

“I said I’d listen to the explanation outside, didn’t I?”

[But here, no matter how-]

However, Lenok ignored the priestess’s words and slowly clasped his hands together.

In the moment when Lenok’s hands slipped and twisted between the fluttering robe sleeves.

“Summoning Art.”

Kiiiiing!!

A space split open behind Lenok, and a huge, tattered hand emerged.

The shape of a long hand that seemed to tear through space and jump out at any moment.

However, the shape stopped in place without revealing its true form, and began to forcefully widen the crack with its bare hands.

[Gwoooaaar!]

[Aaaaah!!]

The spirit soldiers screamed in pain, torn apart by the hand and clearing the way.

Crack, crack!!

With just that, the space of the room that had been compressing around Lenok faltered, and the walls collapsed.

“……!!”

In the moment when the myriad ghost’s expression turned cold, Lenok did not hesitate and used Blink to jump out through the crack in the wall.

Whoosh!!

Lenok’s figure, accelerated at an incredible speed, fell down the collapsing corridor of the Soul Requiem Tower, while the huge hand shape disappeared in an instant.

“Ah, ah…… right!! To punish the sinner who peeked into the Interstice……!!”

The myriad ghost, realizing what trick Lenok had played, belatedly regained his senses and chased after him.

“Did you forcibly create a crack in the tower’s space with just a simplified incantation of Summoning Art…… A solution worthy of a spatial sorcerer……!!”

Special-type artificial summon, simplified incantation of the Weaver of the Imaginary Dimension summoning technique.

However, even Lenok would have to endure a massive mana consumption to properly summon its true form.

Therefore, instead of fully summoning the Weaver, Lenok quickly repeated only a part of the incantation to shake the tower’s space,

And he created a crack in the structure of the room that had been compressed without even the slightest gap, and escaped from that place.

The myriad ghost’s spirit soldier manipulation was so perfect, and the compression of the sealed room was so tight that the variable acted as a fatal twist.

“You can’t escape……!!”

Wham!!

Lenok’s figure crashed through the collapsing walls and floors of the tower, falling downwards.

He realized that the answer was to simply go down to the ground below the tower, rather than escaping through the windows of the Soul Requiem Tower.

The myriad ghost also sensed this and leaped through the tower’s space, instantly grabbing Lenok’s robe.

Swish!!

The cold chill of the spirit soldiers wrapped around his neck. As soon as he recognized the hand that had grabbed the hem of his robe, Lenok also twisted his body.

Rustle, rustle!!

Dozens of mana threads wrapped around his fingers repeatedly contracted and relaxed in different directions.

The myriad ghost also wrapped his arms with spirit soldiers and lunged at Lenok’s heart with all his might.

Dozens of attacks exchanged at a distance close enough to see each other’s pupils.

However, the first battle in which the two clashed with all their might ended as quickly as it was futile.

Bang!!

At the same time as landing on the lower level of the Soul Requiem Tower, Lenok grabbed the myriad ghost’s spirit form and slammed him into the floor.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

“……!!”

He crushed the myriad ghost’s head, who couldn’t even scream, and ground it into the fragments of the tower’s corridor.

The myriad ghost, who was writhing and scattering a faint spiritual aura instead of blood, disappeared like smoke and reappeared behind Lenok.

“You!!”

The myriad ghost’s face was completely stiff, with none of the composure he had shown earlier.

Lenok turned to him and chuckled.

“Even if you’re a spirit soldier, you can’t easily ignore the collision of mana and will.”

“A sorcerer, like you……!!”

“Even with that much physical strength, you didn’t even try to fight head-on, but instead tried to crush me to death using spirit soldier manipulation.”

Lenok said, releasing all the remaining mana threads he had been holding.

Not only was he guarding the Interstice alone, but he also had a powerful spirit soldier technique that allowed him to freely manipulate the spirit soldiers of the Soul Requiem Tower like his own limbs.

Lenok had seen many spirit soldier sorcerers, but it had been a long time since he had seen a sorcerer who could manipulate spirit soldiers so skillfully and enforce his will.

Perhaps he was a spirit soldier sorcerer comparable to Madrich Onion in his lifetime.

However, the reason why the myriad ghost standing in front of him, despite possessing such spirit soldier techniques, had thoroughly confronted Lenok with simple spirit soldier manipulation.

“Apart from your excellent physical abilities, you’re not used to fighting. In your lifetime, you must have been a sorcerer who was thoroughly specialized in the rear.”

“……”

“I have no intention of giving my body to a mere ghost, so let’s stop here. There’s no way you can stop me anymore, is there?”

Lenok turned away immediately, leaving the myriad ghost who did not answer.

“The old spirits of the Soul Requiem Hall are in a state where they can’t even fall out, and the myriad ghost guarding the Interstice is suffering from severe amnesia…… What a tragic fate.”

“……No. It’s not that I was in such a hurry because I couldn’t kill a single insignificant living being.”

The myriad ghost replied with a blank, stiff expression.

“I just wanted to avoid the unpleasant situation of having to punish an intruder by damaging this great achievement that we have built up with our efforts.”

At that moment, the spirit soldiers that made up the Soul Requiem Tower began to forcibly separate and fall from the ceiling and walls.

[Kkuaaaak!!]

[Ooooook!!!]

A series of actions that forcibly separated and gathered the spirit soldiers, who had never fallen from the tower even when manipulated by the myriad ghost’s will.

The spirit soldiers that had fallen were condensed in the myriad ghost’s hand, becoming a sphere of pure white light that rotated violently.

Spirit Soldier System Unique Technique

Spiritual Body Ensemble Forced Repulsion

[Wrathful Void Demonic Fall (怨虛魔有墮)]

Whoooosh!!

As a ghostly cry erupted from the sphere condensed in the myriad ghost’s hand, a cold wind blew incessantly.

A marvel that forcibly detached the spirit soldiers subordinate to the Soul Requiem Tower and made them part of the spirit soldier technique.

The aftermath alone shook the lower part of the tower violently, and shot out a murderous intent mixed with resentment towards Lenok.

Crack, crack!!

The entire space was compressed to the point that the shield that was being cast through the robe was crushed.

Only then did Lenok understand why the myriad ghost was so confident of victory.

The fact that he could detach the spirit soldiers needed to cast the spirit soldier technique from the Soul Requiem Tower and use them freely.

Wasn’t it the meaning that the Soul Requiem Tower itself was like an endless source of power for the myriad ghost?

Even if he had to pour it out until all of Lenok’s mana was exhausted, he was planning to kill Lenok on the spot.

With the gesture of lightly lowering his hand, the sphere of resentment that had soared into the sky fell towards Lenok.

Boom, boom, boom!!

Spirit Soldier System Unique Technique, Wrathful Void Demonic Fall (怨虛魔有墮).

As the high-powered aggregate, created by detaching and grinding the spirit soldiers of the Soul Requiem Tower, rotated and slammed down.

The aftermath distorted the vision of the tower in all directions and tried to tear apart Lenok’s very existence.

Lenok, seeing the myriad ghost’s technique falling from above, unconsciously reached into his robe.

‘……The elixir.’

The diluted elixir he had obtained as a gift from Aris Richelieu.

Although it was an effect that only applied to Lenok, it was a consumable with unbelievable performance that eliminated the limit of mana consumption for about 4 seconds.

However, since it was a power that eliminated the mana consumed based on the current mana amount, he had to use it at this point when he had enough remaining mana.

If he was going to use it, he had to do it properly.

From now on, he had to push it to the point where he would never be pushed back in the quantity battle that the myriad ghost was aiming for.

However, Lenok hesitated for a moment and let go of the hand that had been holding the diluted elixir.

Even if he used the elixir that Aris had given him here, he was not sure that he could stand up to the quantity battle against the myriad ghost.

Moreover, in order to kill him, who was receiving the support of the Soul Requiem Tower, he did not know how much elixir he would have to use.

Even if he won like that, he had not found a way to enter the Interstice, so it was a meaningless fight after all.

All of his plans had gone awry at this point, where he was about to be chased and killed by the Soul Requiem Hall for seeing the corpse of the Ascendant.

In the end, he had no choice but to focus on getting out of this situation for now.

Just as Lenok made up his mind and clasped his hands together to draw mana again.

“There is a rogue who is breaking the tower’s agreement and disturbing the ground and underground!!”

A young boy’s voice echoed loudly in his ears.

“……!!”

Lenok and the myriad ghost flinched at the unexpected reverberation and shifted their senses.

Immediately after, the ground of the tower beneath their feet exploded and split open to the sides, and a huge amount of water surged up.

Even in the meantime, the sphere of resentment that had been falling to the ground collided head-on with the surging river.

Boom!!

With a deafening roar, water jets shot out in all directions of the tower and evaporated.

A tremendous amount of water, enough to give the illusion of a tidal wave, surged into the corridors and stairwells in all directions.

Wham!!

Lenok immediately used Blink and mana threads in combination to avoid the onrushing tidal wave and create distance,

And the myriad ghost also looked at the surging river while flying by placing spirit soldiers under his feet.

“Hahahaha!!”

A huge ghost shark jumped out from under the water, along with a loud laugh.

A peculiar appearance with a pale form and smooth fins. Blank eyes that had lost their focus.

On top of the shark’s massive body, which was covered in rough scars and wounds, a boy with a youthful face was riding and laughing.

“How dare you cause a commotion while this old man is wide awake!!”

“……You are.”

Lenok, who was hanging between the collapsed stairs of the Soul Requiem Tower, frowned as he checked the boy’s face.

The powerful spirit soldier that Lenok had encountered during the inspection when he had just entered Yorta.

The Grand Inquisitor, who was in charge of the first basement level of the Soul Requiem Tower, had broken through the floor of the Soul Requiem Tower and revealed himself.

“The commotion that has occurred on both the ground and underground of the tower is a matter that I, the Grand Inquisitor, must handle myself.”

The Inquisitor marched proudly, with his hands behind his back, and raised his head as if to show off the ruined interior of the tower.

“I will take that ill-mannered fellow and punish him, so hand him over quietly.”

The boy, who spoke shamelessly in a loud voice, glanced at Lenok and smiled strangely.

[It seems you have seen the remains that exist within the Interstice, descendant of Onion.]

At the same time, the boy’s telepathy was heard in Lenok’s ear.

[It is a weakness that the Soul Requiem Hall is desperately trying to hide, and it is the archetype itself that is intertwined with all the spiritual records of the Soul Requiem Tower.]

“……”

[I will give you a special favor and save you from this place. Instead, there is one thing I want to entrust to you.]

The Inquisitor’s whisper continued quickly, leaving Lenok silent.

[It is about the deal that the Papal State and the Soul Requiem Hall made long ago regarding the corpse of the Ascendant. Will you accept it?]